Best Beauty, Health & Wellness Services in Oakland and the East Bay – 2025 Reader’s Choice Awards
Each year, thousands of Oakland Magazine readers cast their votes to recognize the businesses, practitioners, and service providers that elevate our community’s beauty, health, and wellness standards. The Best of Oakland and the East Bay 2025 awards celebrate everything from luxurious spas and top-rated salons to expert medical professionals, holistic healers, and fitness innovators. If you’re looking for the very best in self-care, health services, and personal transformation, this year’s winners and finalists are the names to know.
🏆 2025 Top Beauty, Health & Wellness Categories
Best Acupuncture Practices
- City Pulse Acupuncture
- Oakland Acupuncture Project
- Oakland Community Acupuncture
- Temescal Acupuncture Center – Winner 2025
Best Alternative Medicine Practices
- Alchemy Community Therapy Center
- City Pulse Acupuncture
- Sage Integrative Health
- Shift Chiropractic
- True Yang Somatic Ketamine Therapy – Winner 2025
Best Barbershops
- Calm Salon
- East Lake Barber Shop
- Peoples Barber & Shop
- Temescal Alley Barber Shop
- Haven Barber Suite – Winner 2025
Best Cannabis Dispensaries
- Harborside
- Oakanna
- Ohana Cannabis
- Rooted 510
- Urbana – Winner 2025
Best Chiropractic Services
- Life Chiropractic
- Optimized Wellness Center
- The Bay Chiropractic & Massage
- The Shift Chiropractic
- The Source Chiropractic
- Nolan Sport & Family Chiropractic – Winner 2025
Best Dental Practices
- Alameda Pediatric Dentistry & Orthodontics
- Hillside View Orthodontics
- Piedmont Advanced Dentistry
- Redwood Pediatric Dentistry
- Laurel Smile Dentistry – Winner 2025
Best Eyeglass Stores
- All Eyes On Me Optometry
- Eye Care Optometry
- Focal Point Opticians
- Warby Parker Fourth St.
- Grand Lake Optometry – Winner 2025
Best Fitness Classes
- Hipline
- Honor Barre
- Orangetheory Fitness
- The Combine
- BodyFit Training – Rockridge – Winner 2025
Best Gyms & Health Clubs
- Orangetheory Fitness
- Pacific Pipe
- Radically Fit Oakland
- The Combine
- X’CORE Oakland – Piedmont Ave
- Berkeley Barbell Club – Winner 2025
Best Hair & Beauty Salons
- 17 Jewels Salon
- 77 Salon Inc
- Be Here
- Calm Salon
- The Hush Hush
- Pony Studios – Winner 2025
Best Hairstylists and/or Colorists
- Alexandra Sussman
- Corinna Hernandez
- Debi Alley
- Eryn Harrison, Calm Salon
- Hannah Bourne
- Joey Stevenson Hair
- Mele Alberta at Hush Salon – Winner 2025
Best Home Care Services for Seniors
- Authentic Home Care, LLC
- Homewatch CareGivers of Oakland
- Piedmont Gardens
- Senioravenue LLC
- Visiting Angels
- Hillendale Home Care – Winner 2025
Best Medical Spas
- Potentia Medspa
- Refine Anti-Aging Medicine and Aesthetics
- Skin Reset Lab
- SkinSpirit Oakland
- Kintsu MedSpa & Wellness – Winner 2025
Best Nutritionists
- Alameda Nutrition
- Isabella Frediani
- Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center
- Michelle Dwyer LLC
- Potentia Medspa
- New Dawn Wellness – Winner 2025
Best Optometry Practices
- All Eyes On Me Optometry
- C2020 Optometry
- Eye Care Optometry
- Grand Lake Optometry
- Rockridge Optometry – Winner 2025
Best Personal Trainers
- Ainka J Fulani
- Jonathan Ingersoll Fitness
- MYO Lab
- TNT Strength
- Nu Fitness – Winner 2025
Best Pilates Studios
- BodyROK East Bay – Oakland
- Montclair Village Pilates
- Tandem Pilates
- X’CORE Oakland
- The Oasis: Pilates, Strength & Wellness – Winner 2025
Best Physical Therapy
- MYO Lab
- Opus Physio
- SOL Physical Therapy
- Taylor & Thornburg Physical Therapy, Inc.
- Pro+Kinetix Physical Therapy & Performance – Winner 2025
Best Facials
- Buongiorno Esthetics
- Kintsu MedSpa & Wellness
- Sauveur Skin Care
- Skin Reset Lab
- SkinSpirit Oakland – Montclair
- Feliz Dubois Skin Care – Winner 2025
Best Manicures & Pedicures
- All About Nails
- Healing Essence Lymphatic Massage and More
- Le Soleil Day Spa
- Simply Green Day Spa
- Natural Nails Plus – Winner 2025
Best Massage
- East Bay Sports Massage
- Healing Essence Lymphatic Massage and More
- Inclusive Massage East Bay
- mama meg’s massage
- Melt Massage LLC
- Allison Ayer, LMT Oakland – Winner 2025
Best Psychotherapy Practice
- Danielle Dekker, Ph.D., LMFT
- Dr. Carla Vogel-Stone, PsyD
- Lucia Grauman LCSW
- Sage Integrative Health – Winner 2025
Best Reiki Practice or Practitioner
- East Bay Healing House
- Karen Beckles
- Oakland Acupuncture Project
- Sweet Medicina
- Urban Temple Facial Therapies & Reiki Center – Winner 2025
Best Spas
- Kintsu MedSpa & Wellness
- Rockridge Day Spa
- Skin Reset Lab
- SkinSpirit
- Piedmont Springs – Winner 2025
Best Waxing Salons
- Bleu Honey Beauty Bar
- Cocoon Day Spa
- European Wax Center
- Natural Nails Plus
- Centered Aesthetics – Winner 2025
Best Yoga Studios
- Arise Yoga
- Hot Spot Yoga Oakland
- Left Coast Yoga
- Nest Yoga Studio Oakland
- Banana Yoga – Winner 2025
How the Best Beauty, Health & Wellness Winners Are Selected
The Best of Oakland and the East Bay – Beauty, Health & Wellness awards are determined entirely by our readers. Voting is a two-round process:
- Nomination Round (February – Mid-April): Readers submit open write-in nominations for their favorite businesses, practitioners, and services across all beauty, health, and wellness categories.
- Final Voting Round (Late April – May): The top nominees from the first round advance to a curated ballot where readers select their favorites from the finalists. No new nominations are accepted during this round.
The winners are officially announced in our July and August issues, both online and in print, giving well-deserved recognition to the businesses that help Oakland and the East Bay thrive in beauty, health, and wellness.
Whether you’re looking for the most skilled acupuncturist, the top-rated spa experience, the best personal trainer, or a trusted medical professional, the Best of Oakland 2025 list is your go-to guide for excellence.
